Download or read book Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Climate Finance Lessons Learned from EThekwini Santiago de Chile and Chennai written by Dennis Tänzler and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Climate Finance Lessons Learned from EThekwini Santiago de Chile and Chennai written by Dennis Tänzler and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change and Finance written by Nader Naifar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Concepts and Practices of Climate Finance written by Rafay, Abdul and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate finance is a complex and rapidly evolving field, with practices and regulations varying widely across countries. This lack of standardization and understanding poses a significant challenge for stakeholders, hindering effective decision-making and impeding progress toward climate goals. Additionally, the sheer breadth of topics within climate finance, from carbon pricing mechanisms to sustainable investments, can overwhelm researchers and practitioners alike, further complicating efforts to address climate change effectively. Modern Concepts and Practices of Climate Finance offers a comprehensive solution to these challenges. Written by distinguished experts in the field, the book thoroughly examines climate finance practices worldwide. It is a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and professionals, offering insights and lessons learned from theory and real-world applications. Whether you are a researcher seeking to understand the latest trends or a practitioner looking for practical solutions, this book is an essential guide for anyone working in the field of climate finance.
Download or read book Climate Finance written by Nuno Fernandes and published by Npv Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your work deals with finance, you must understand how the real-world impacts of climate change are reshaping stakeholders' expectations. Businesses cannot sit back and be passive spectators of the government's actions. Rather, they need to participate in efforts to combat climate change and contribute in different ways. Many long-term investors are increasingly concerned that failure to act could endanger the long-term returns on their assets. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has already issued several warnings in letters to shareholders. Climate Finance will help you act in a positive way. It provides a comprehensive overview of climate-related financial issues. Finance is about linking demand for capital to suppliers of capital. Defined in this broad sense, finance (including financial players such as shareholders, debtholders, capital markets, regulators/central banks, and boards) has an important role to play in tackling the challenges ahead. The book covers every aspect of climate-related finance and disentangles the complex layers of decision-making around it. Climate Finance: Provides an in-depth understanding of the various aspects of climate finance, from the risks and opportunities, to the demand and supply of capital, to the impact of global policies. Presents frameworks for readers to help them better understand the field, and how finance and climate are linked. Covers all the financing activities of companies, both through the debt side and the equity side, while addressing the financial market aspects of these activities (including green finance instruments, sustainability-linked products, ESG investment, climate financing, institutional investors, ESG ratings, activist investors, etc.). Allows reader to assess their contributions, risks, opportunities, and personal role in the coming transition Helps investors and companies make more informed capital allocation decisions by appropriately incorporating all risks Provides empirical evidence for the links between financial actions and climate related risks and opportunities Highlights relevant frameworks and evidence from markets, academic research, and practical case studies featuring leading companies and investors. In addition to being a useful guide for finance leaders and practitioners, this book can also be used in business education (MBA, master's, and executive education programs). It is based on many years of teaching and consulting with world-class corporations from all continents of the world. A big funding gap exists between what we have right now (the Paris Agreement signatures) and what we need in the future (the actual infrastructure, supply chains, and corporate frameworks to deliver on those agreements). It is clear that bridging this gap should now be the priority for executives, board members, and investors. Climate Finance will help you be part of the solution to the greatest challenge facing humankind today. The book will help you make the right choices and take meaningful action to protect the long-term interests of your organization against the financial threats posed by climate change.
Download or read book Climate Finance in the Urban Context written by Ari Huhtala and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carbon Markets or Climate Finance written by Axel Michaelowa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds on a decade-long experience with mechanisms provided by the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It discusses the challenges of climate finance in the context of the post-Copenhagen negotiations and provides a long-term outlook of how climate finance in developing countries could develop. Written by climate finance experts from academia, carbon finance businesses and international organisations, the book provides background, firsthand insights, case studies and analysis into the complex subject area of climate finance.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Climate Finance written by Corrine Cash and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project breaks disciplinary silos by bringing those who work in climate finance and policy together with development scholars and practitioners to share lessons, understanding, and research with an overall goal of making a contribution to the climate change field so that those at the community level benefit from the multitude of programmes designed for climate impacts. For some 70 years, International Development specialists have been developing programs and delivering funds to those who most need assistance. There is a wealth of knowledge to be uncovered by examining the international development industry for those who are now tasked with delivering climate finance. The academic, policy, and practitioner communities have spent decades researching, examining, and analyzing both development policies and finance independent of each. This volume will seek to bring that research together. Corrine Cash is Assistant Professor in Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University, Canada. Larry Swatuk is Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Download or read book Financing Greener and Climate Resilient Infrastructure in Developing Countries Challenges and Opportunities written by Marianne Fay and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalyzing Private Sector Investment in Climate Smart Cities written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The State of Cities Climate Finance written by Weltbankgruppe and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enabling Conditions for Urban Climate Finance Part 2 is a contribution of the World Bank to the State of Cities Climate Finance Report 2021. Part 2 analyzes enabling frameworks and presents solutions for mobilizing urban climate finance at scale to transition cities to low-carbon, climate-resilient development pathways. It seeks to provide a common level of understanding of the terminologies, knowledge, and themes used by climate policy and climate finance practitioners, city-level urban planners, and municipal finance officials. It presents innovative and critical concepts on the roles and agency of city governments in climate action; the enabling conditions at the country, city, and climate transaction level; concrete practical examples, solutions and approaches and key recommendations for local, national, and international officials to mobilize urban climate finance at scale. The entire State of Cities Climate Finance Report, including the Executive Summary, is available here: https://www.citiesclimatefinance.org/2021/06/2021-state-of-cities-climate-finance.
Download or read book Financing Urban Adaptation to Climate Change Challenges and Constraints of Local Governments written by Stephania Mageste Castelar Campos and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culture urban future written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report presents a series of analyses and recommendations for fostering the role of culture for sustainable development. Drawing on a global survey implemented with nine regional partners and insights from scholars, NGOs and urban thinkers, the report offers a global overview of urban heritage safeguarding, conservation and management, as well as the promotion of cultural and creative industries, highlighting their role as resources for sustainable urban development. Report is intended as a policy framework document to support governments in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Urban Development and the New Urban Agenda.
Download or read book Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries written by Roy W. Bahl and published by Lincoln Inst of Land Policy. This book was released on 2013 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in cities. Catchphrases such as “metropolitan areas are the engines that pull the national economy” turn out to be fairly accurate. But the same advantages of metropolitan areas that draw investment also draw migrants who need jobs and housing, lead to demands for better infrastructure and social services, and result in increased congestion, environmental harm, and social problems. The challenges for metropolitan public finance are to capture a share of the economic growth to adequately finance new and growing expenditures and to organize governance so that services can be delivered in a cost-effective way, giving the local population a voice in fiscal decision making. At the same time, care must be taken to avoid overregulation and overtaxation, which will hamper the now quite mobile economic engine of private investment and entrepreneurial initiative. Metropolitan planning has become a reality in most large urban areas, even though the planning agencies are often ineffective in moving things forward and in linking their plans with the fiscal and financial realities of metropolitan government. A growing number of success stories in metropolitan finance and management, together with accumulated experience and proper efforts and support, could be extended to a broader array of forward-looking programs to address the growing public service needs of metropolitan-area populations. Nevertheless, sweeping metropolitan-area fiscal reforms have been few and far between; the urban policy reform agenda is still a long one; and there is a reasonable prospect that closing the gaps between what we know how to do and what is actually being done will continue to be difficult and slow. This book identifies the most important issues in metropolitan governance and finance in developing countries, describes the practice, explores the gap between practice and what theory suggests should be done, and lays out the reform paths that might be considered. Part of the solution will rest in rethinking expenditure assignments and instruments of finance. The “right” approach also will depend on the flexibility of political leaders to relinquish some control in order to find a better solution to the metropolitan finance problem.
Download or read book Adapting to Climate Change in Urban Areas written by David Satterthwaite and published by IIED. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses the possibilities and constraints for adaptation to climate change in urban areas in low- and middle-income nations. These contain a third of the world's population and a large proportion of the people and economic activities most at risk from sea-level rise and from the heatwaves, storms and floods whose frequency and/or intensity climate change is likely to increase. Section I outlines both the potentials for adaptation and the constraints. Section II discusses the scale of urban change. Section III considers direct and indirect impacts of climate change on urban areas and which nations, cities and population groups are particularly at risk. This highlights how prosperous, well-governed cities could generally adapt, but most of the world's urban population lives in cities or smaller urban centres ill-equipped for adaptation. A key part of adaptation concerns infrastructure and buildings - but much of the urban population in Africa, Asia and Latin America lack the infrastructure to adapt. Most international agencies have long refused to support urban programmes, especially those that address these problems. Section IV discusses innovations by urban governments and community organizations and in financial systems that address such problems, including the relevance of recent innovations in disaster-risk reduction for adaptation. It notes how few city and national governments are taking any action on adaptation. Section V discusses how local innovation in adaptation can be encouraged and supported at national scale, and the funding needed to support this. Section VI considers the mechanisms for financing this and the larger ethical challenges that achieving adaptation raises - especially the fact that most climate-change-related urban (and rural) risks are in low-income nations with the least adaptive capacity, including many that have contributed very little to greenhouse-gas emissions.
Download or read book Cities and Climate Change written by Daniel Hoornweg and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the latest knowledge and practice in responding to the challenge of climate change in cities. Case studies focus on topics such as New Orleans in the context of a fragile environment, a framework to include poverty in the cities and climate change discussion, and measuring the impact of GHG emissions.
Download or read book Planning Sustainable Cities written by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts therein, and identifies innovative approaches that are more responsive to current challenges of urbanization. It notes that traditional approaches to urban planning (particularly in developing countries) have largely failed to promote equitable, efficient and sustainable human settlements and to address twenty-first century challenges, including rapid urbanization, shrinking cities and aging, climate change and related disasters, urban sprawl and unplanned peri-urbanization, as well as urbanization of poverty and informality. It concludes that new approaches to planning can only be meaningful, and have a greater chance of succeeding, if they effectively address all of these challenges, are participatory and inclusive, as well as linked to contextual socio-political processes.--Publisher's description
